After a semester in the Exploratory course I have been exposed to many different ideas and beliefs as to the purpose of college; some of those beliefs stuck with me while others have slipped away. This course’s intent is to help students find their stride and their passion I have not found this course to be the largest factor in finding my personal view on what a college education can be. I’ve found a combination of life experience and independence to be the largest factors when it has come to finding
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hypothesized this) Netflix has become widely popular over the past couple of years. Many college students spend late nights binging on their favorite television shows. There has not been much research done, on the effects that Netflix has on students, specifically those in college. Although, there have been several studies done on the effects media has on secondary students, as well as college students. Our study will try to determine whether watching Netflix while doing schoolwork will effect the
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At the following, there is an activity called “jigsaw readings” that is supported by Ph.D. Professor Oxford. This exercise consists of asking students to put in the right order the pieces of writing that are cut and separated. The teacher could give them the structure of a text as a clue; nevertheless, they have to think about how to put the given script in the right form. First of all you need to have the materials, they could be as simple as you imagine. For instance, books, newspapers, a recipe
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that is open to various members of the university, most importantly to university students with learning disabilities, who are willing to positively contribute and share their narratives, ideas and views that will feed into the goals of what the policies and services need to accomplish in order for them to breed an inclusive university landscape that is free from dogmatic assumptions about the learning disabled students. The policy will first and foremost to define learning disability. Generally, learning
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Throughout the last three years, the advent of massive open online courses (MOOCs) have garnered media attention as a new alternative of online education with the number of student enrollment has reached 35 millions, according to the data collected by Class Central (Shah, 2015); however, the course completion rate still have been a controversial issue for educators and MOOCs providers. Indeed, the completion rates for MOOCs
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Chapter One Introduction In our dynamic South African society effective leadership is a huge challenge and an important responsibility. It has to be realised that one of the realities that is increasingly imposing itself on socio-politico-economic management all over the world, as globalisation becomes dominant, is the need to manage diversity (Kauzya, 2002:2). School leaders are faced with the challenge of transforming schools to comply with rapidly changing policies to meets the needs of a changing
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The objective of this literature review is to explore what have already been written and get a better understanding on private return to schooling. Moreover through the literature it becomes clearer on how to reply to our research questions and how to meet the objectives on this dissertation. Theoretical review Return to education is today’s investment in term of monetary and non-monetary cost (Spraul, 2006) in order to get immediate need satisfaction or future monetary and non-monetary benefits
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Academic performance has always been linked with the amount of sleep an individual gets. Research studies claim that insufficient sleep affects the academic performance of college students in various ways. For more understanding about the topic, the researchers gathered articles from different sources to further explain the matter. ACCA Global (2015) stated that next to diet and exercise, sleep is deemed as the third most important key factor of health. As aspiring accountants in college strive to
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11) Abdulwahab O Issa, Blessing Babawale Amusan, Shuaib Agboola Olarongbe, Kingsley Nwadiuto Igwe (2015) have conducted study on the Information Literacy competence of the final year undergraduate students at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria; identifying that information needs and ability to satisfy such needs, exposure to information literacy programmes and the challenges faced. Questionnaire method was used for data collection. The study found that the majority expressed dissatisfaction with their
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play a crucial role to mould the students. Due to the low enrolment and high dropout, the quality and the future development become a serious problem confronting the country’s education system. However, the teacher believes they can make difference, change is possible and it is essential to develop an accurate understanding of the factors that influences the dropout of rural students at college level. Christenson & Thurlow (2004) and Dweck (1986) reveal that student dropout is an outcome derived from
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